Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-19
MINING NEWS.

Rushing Business at the Butte Reduction
Works-Enlargement Of tho Colorado
Smelling Plant Pumping Out the
Morning Star.
At the Butte Reduction Works the entire
plant is being worked to it's utmost Ca
pacity, turning out great quantities Of
matte. Large piles of ore are being stacked
and burnt, preparatory to their being
placed in the blast furnace for smelling.
The coke bins are all foil to o~verfowing. in
order to be prepared in case of any delay
or blockades the coming winter. The ore
for this smelter is purchased Of the many
~lessees and mine owners in the district, the
company operating no mines Of their own.
Messrs. Murphy Inc Thompson, the min
eralogists OF these works, are kept busy
sampling ores al they are brought in by
those DESTROYS Of selling. Every carload
Of matte shipped and the s, ppiy for the
day 10 all carefully sampled, to determine
the quality and correct amount contained
in each car and the amount produced each
day.
Many improvements have been made al
the Colorado Smelling plant the past
summer. Among them is a large ~calciner
building in which are in full operation six
teen new calciners and there is sufficient
room for as many more. Each ~calciner
disposes of four charges OF a little over two
tons to q charge, in twenty-four hours.
They are erected on the improved plan and
as handy as a pocket in a shirt. A large
new stack. about 100 feet in height has
been erected. Formerly the two stacks OF
the old calciners were used for the kilns.
but the draft was hardly sufficient for thu
two and the large new one was put up to
fill the wants of the kilns. 1t works to
perfection and hardly any smoke escapes
now from the kilns where before it was
sitting for the men to remain any great
length of time. The company are
at present busy in remodeling their
matte furnaces. Formerly they used wood
exclusively, but one Of the foremen r..
marked that the company found coal
much more profitable and that it per
formed the work more thoroughly. The
present ones will be considerably larger and
of greater capacity, and as fast as one ie /
completed others will be commenced in 70
tatlon and pushed to completion till al
are coal burning furnaces. A large ore shed |
has also been completed, where the fret |
class is dumped prepar tory to being run |
into the rock breaker for shipment. Tht (
ores on which this pie NJ is worked com. |
principally from the it.Bur inetonand
Gagnon, though they do considerable |
OF d custom business. hwhole property |
mas had a thorough lsthH the past
year and. with the -,improvements |
attached. presents .ltjgreat mag
nitude, second only te Parrot in this
camp. The company has shipped between
or three cars weekly, mostly of q sill
ver-bearing matte, though containing much
copper.
The Morning Star has again been started
by L. Morrill,, who, it is reported. repre-
sents a st. Louis compan ny Pump re CON-
menced on these works a week ago Mon.
day, aud the water is very bard to get rid
OF. BY this tina next week the mine will
be in such condition if every thing progress es
favors bly,. that other improvements can
be commenced, and sinking begun. On The
OF the Morning Star. sinking j,
progressing under lease to M-ssrs. John
ston. Ca'man & Co. They are 1T presen'
down $50 feet. and sinkirg, i'll h. prosp-
cuted till the 2OO.fout level is reached,
" hen stopping will be begun. Both these
properties have been exceedingly ri, b in the
past, and the only drawb ,ck they have
had is the great quar- tity of water with
which they have to contend. The
water pumped out a number of
lines, and no doubt this tune they
,ill make a success OF the operation.
The large new building Of brick the Water
is erecting over their new pump
q Silver Bow Creek is about completed,
md they were busy putting on the roof
The large ore chutee at the Wake-Up.Jim
mine are now completed.
The Mountain Views new hoist is loom
ng up in the far distance, and call be dis.
inctly seen from the city.
A rumor is in circulation OF q party in
his city getting together q number OF min
rs to go to the African gold fields. Search
'as made for Information concerning the
umor yesterday, but it could not be traced
o any reliable source.
A few leasers are busy At work on the
'ell ground, but not in the old workings.